According to experts, urbanization will make bone fever one of the most common diseases of the century

OAccording to researchers, one of the world's most debilitating mosquito-borne diseases is about to spread to parts of Asia, Europe, America. North and Australia.

The dengue virus – also known as "bone fever" because of the joint pains that it causes – will threaten 60% of the world's population, or six billion people by 2080, according to a report. new study.

The largest increase is expected to occur in Africa, but much of the southeastern United States is expected to experience a resurgence of the disease, as will Australia and many large cities in southern China and Japan. .

The incidence of the disease is also expected to increase in southern Europe, although the authors of the study say that health authorities should be able to prevent widespread epidemics in this region.

The paper, published in Nature Microbiology, is the first to consider the spread of the mosquito as the main factor of dengue, rather than the only climate change, which has focused on previous studies.